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Remains of wooden schooner found buried on Deer Island
STEPHEN M. DeSANTE Herald Staff Writer
The remains of an old wooden schooner, used for oyster dredging in the 1920s, were recently found on Deer Island by two Biloxi men, Joe Jewell and Franklin Kyle.
They located and recovered the fourteen-foot prow of schooner McCaffery, which had been buried on a Deer Island beach for 50 years.
Only about one foot of the prow, which weighs nearly 900 pounds, was visible on the beach, Jewell said. He said he and Kyle had noticed the wooden object several times, and finally decided in June to have a closer look at it.
Upon closer inspection, they discovered it was a ship’s plow, most of it being buried below the high tide mark.
It took the men nearly two days to recover the prow. They had to build an embankment around the prow at low tide so they could continue digging during high tide, when most of the excavation site was submerged.
After uncovering the prow, the two attached a rope to it and pulled it free of its resting place. The prow is currently at the McCaughan residence on West 3rd Street in Biloxi, and eventually will be placed in the Magnolia Museum.
According to Jewell, the McCaffery was a dredge boat used exclusively for oystering. In 1928, it and another schooner caught fire while docked at the Mavar Docks in east Biloxi.
After the fire, the two wrecks w'ere towed to Deer Island, where the elements finished the job the fires had started.
Th'e good ship 'McCaffery'
Two Biloxi men recently recovered the 14-foot prow of the schooner McCaffery,	wrecked
by tire in 1928. The 900-pound prow will be placed in the Magnolia Museum in Biloxi. It took the men nearly two days of digging to uncover the prow, which had been buried for 50 years on a Deer Island beach.